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"That's the plan?! Who comes up with these ideas?"

"You did, actually Sir", Carter said.

"Hey! You helped!"

"You've been complaining for two hours Jack!" Daniel was becoming frustrated with his CO.

"Surely it hasn't been-" he checked his watch, "And I'm NOT complaining!"

Daniel sighed and looked at Sam as if to say, you want to try?

"Why use our technology in the first place? The Tok'ra are far more advanced then us", asked Sam. At last, thought Jack, something she doesn't know already.

"Ahh..." Dr. Jackson started up again after half a cup of coffee, "Due to our harsher atmospheric conditions, the mere shells of our spacecraft are stronger. The Tok'ra have ships that can withstand travel at the speed of light and have great shields, but it's not like you're going to use a force field just to land, you know?" He then added as an afterthought, "Our ships have tougher skins and weaker minds, so to speak".

"Deep, Danny", the Colonel had a confused look on his face, "I'm not sure what exactly all of that means, but you can go with the cryptic, even if the rest of us have no idea what your on about", he paused to look at his other companions, then continued when he saw their faces, "Well, maybe Carter and Teal'c do, but the rest of us don't!"

"That's just you Jack".

"No need to rub it in Daniel".

"I think all he meant, Colonel, was that because we can't generate massive shields, for example, we use stronger materials for the outside of the craft, and the Tok'ra wanted to take advantage of that", explained Carter.

"Oh OK. Well, why couldn't Daniel here say it like that?"

"Hey! Right here, you know!"

"Well, you could've..."

The argument was well underway by the time General Hammond arrived.

"SG-1. We have come to the conclusion that, after finding that Set'nak was a Tok'ra, he had stolen the drug from the Goa'uld that killed him. It was a top secret operation, so only the most important Tok'ra officials knew about it".

SG-1 stared at him expectantly.

"Also", continued the General, "Dr. Fraisers concerns that the drug was linked with the ship have practically been confirmed. We cannot make the drug work here. There must be something on the ship. Finding it is why you are going back to that planet, although Janet and the others believe that it's the ship itself, not something onboard, but don't rule out anything yet.

"Why is there so much we don't know?"

"You've been kept out of the loop for a reason Colonel".

"So, Sg-1, ready to go?"

"Yes, Sir", answered Sam.

"You understand your objectives?"

"Yes Sir", said Jack

"The gate's being dialled".

"Yes Sir", Daniel replied.

The team walked out of the small, table-and-chairs filled room. At the door, Hammond called to them.

"SG-1".

"Sir?" asked Teal'c.

"Good luck and God Speed".

"Yes SIR!" said the team in unison.

The General looked on as his best team walked to the gateroom, before going himself.

***

"Chevron 7 is engaged".

***

Teal'c was the first of the four to open his eyes. The room was bright, white. There were no lights, or doors of any kind, but the walls seemed to illuminate the room. He stood slowly, his muscles aching. As he turned, he saw a sight like he had never seen before, in all his years of serving Apophis, although his reaction may have been because what he saw were people he cared about, injured severly. His three team mates were lying on the floor, their battered bodies sprawled on the cold surface.

"There was a thick stream of blood pouring from O'Neill's ear and Carter's eye was bloody and purple. The white part had turned red from the bleeding. Daniel Jackson easily looked the worst. Minimal bruising but the right lower leg had been broken, snapped. The actual bone was jutting out from the flesh. The kneecap had been shattered, as if blasted by a shotgun. Those wounds were horrific. Teal'c's own wounds were down to a sore neck, throbbing stomach and cuts, thanks to his symbiote's healing powers.

"The Jaffa thought back to the last... The last... Anything he could remember. A ghostly voice floated to his mind. "Chevron 7 is engaged". Teal'c strained to remember anything. He could remember his team, the people but, although he knew why they were all there, he had no idea where he came from, or how, what, where... Slowly though, it all came back. A space program, the Stargate, Goa'uld... He tried and tried until he could remember everything down to the nurse's name from his last visit to the infirmary. Then, he passed out.

When Teal'c awoke only O'Neill and Carter were in the room.

"Hey Teal'c", the Colonel sounded as if his throat were made of sandpaper.

"They took Daniel... Sarcophagus", staggered Sam.

Teal'c looked at them confusedly.

"Am I to understand, O'Neill, that you can recall all that is important which has occurred in your lifespan?"

"Uh, yeah", O'Neill said slowly, "and not just the important stuff either, I can remember when I shit myself in year 3. Something I'd rather forget..."

Carter gave him a 'Huh? Man, you ARE weird!' look.

"You are suffering from no memory loss?"

"Noo... Nothing that isn't normal after being whacked over the head... I think that's what happened anyway, it certainly feels like it", the Colonel rubbed the back of his head.

"Major Carter?"

"Uh, she has a bit of a headache Teal'c, but she can remember stuff", O'Neill answered for her as she had blacked out.

"Curious".

"What's been happening with you Teal'c?"

Slowly, the Jaffa recounted everything from the moment he woke up the first time.

"I do not know how we came to be here", he concluded.

"Neither. My guess is that we're with natives. None of this stuff here looks Goa'uld to me. The only thing I don't remember, probably".

"Then how could they come into contact with a sarcophagus?" Teal'c returned to the matter at hand.

"Stole it maybe. Perhaps they managed to rid this world of... fake... god... guys... Yeah!" O'Neill grinned at his triumph over the words.

"Perhaps".

"Well, all I know is that when we got brought here, and here is like a palace by the way, we got shoved through a metre-deep energy field. That's what knocked us out. It MAY have affected your symbiote".

"Maybe. I shall inquire to Dr. Fraiser when we return to base".

"IF we return, buddy. You know that I'm far from being the pessimist here, that's Daniel's job, but these guys are GOOD". O'Neill turned Sam back onto her side to stop her from swallowing her tongue. Then he muttered something about her being a pain, even when she's unconscious, by turning onto her back all the time.

"This race of people seem to be helping us, O'Neill".

"Or they just don't want Daniel dead. Speak of the devil", Jack watched as the hovering body of Dr. Jackson passed through the wall and was gently placed on the ground. Sam had awoken yet again and crawled over to check his pulse.

"Alive", she croaked, then lay down to shut her eyes again.

As two blue tendrils creeped slowly through the wall, Teal'c rushed over to tackle them. Just when he should hit them, he fell right through.

O'Neill posed an amused look on his face as the tentacles swayed towards him.

"Daniel's were yellow", he laughed.

The fluorescent feelers paused, changed their minds, and went over to Carter instead. They wrapped themselves around her while a third shot out of the wall and touched her ear, rendering her limp. Steadily Carter was inched through the wall.

Teal'c walked over to said wall and touched it. It was solid. He then hit it, with all his strength. The wall stood. All that happened was that it sounded like a hollow plaster wall being tapped with a hammer.

O'Neill watched his friend with a smug smile on his face.

"The only way to get out is to be under the control of those things".

Teal'c bowed his head to show his understanding.

"I'm also thinking that it might be less painful when they come for you if you're already asleep".

And with that they covered Daniel with their spare jackets and settled down for sleep.

O'Neill went and came, as Teal'c was already healed, and they were set free. The walls dissolved and they were thrust forward into the unknown planet.

Well, not really. The Stargate was in sight but if it hadn't been for Carter and Daniel combining their brainpower to recall the address home, they may have been stuck there a while.

Teal'c watched his team mates stumble through the wormhole. He knew that aside from not needing to be healed, entering a sarcophagus was a dangerous venture for a Jaffa, but he was uncertain why he dwas not put in there. Maybe he was just lucky. His brows furrowed as he was sucked into the freezing event horizon.

***

"Oh for crying out loud", were Teal'c first words on the planet, although his serious manner dangerously contradicted O'Neill's usual tone. He looked around at the ice cave he was in. Stalactites and stalagmites were everywhere. Of course, being former-First-Prime-of-Apophis, he had no hesitation in setting forth into the new world.

A/N Anybody wanna help me out with the whole 'stalactite/stalagmite sitch? I once heard something that goes, "Stactite, hold on tite; Stalagmite, mite hit you on the head", or something but yeah. ANYONE know what I'm on about? HELP!!!